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Updated: 6:33 PM EDT Jul 28, 2021 Ed Weinstock Reporter Pennsylvania State Police made an arrest in a 1987 homicide. It was a killing for which an innocent man was originally convicted. Christopher Speelman has been charged with robbery, rape and homicide in the 1987 killing of 85-year-old Edna Laughman. Laughman was found dead in her home on Aug. 13. In court documents, state police said the home appeared to have been ransacked and multiple cigarette butts were found, even though Laughman was not a smoker. Police initially arrested Edna s distant relative, Barry Laughman, for the crime. He was convicted and served 16 years in prison. He was released after DNA showed he was not the killer. State police said the same DNA that cleared Laughman has now connected Speelman to the crimes. The investigation revealed that he indicated he went into her home to steal from Edna, that she was home when he was there, that he attacked her, that he overcame her and t